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and inner margin. Hind wing with the hasal half orange, with 

 small black patch at hase of custa ; the terminal half or third black. 

 Hub. Mexico, Orizaba {Salle), 1 S , type lietifera, Tabasco (//. //. 

 S77iith), Yucatan {Gcmmer) ; Gtuatemaca {Chamjnon) ; jSioaragua 

 {Richardson, Belt), Godman-Salvin Coll. ; Honduras, type arcti- 

 fdscia; Colombia, Veragua, tj'pe latifasciatus ; Brazil {Kadeti). 

 Exp., 6 28-34, $ 40-52 millim. 



514. Cisthene cynossema. 



Euscino cynossema, Druce, A. M. N. H. ((*)) xiii. p. 176 (1894) ; id. Biol. 

 Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 3'J7, pi. 77. f. 23 (1897). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen orange ; palpi, antennae, legs, and 

 ventral surfaee of abdomen except at base and extremity black. 

 Fore wing bluish black ; a broad orange band just before middle 

 with curved inner edge ; a baud from costa beyond middle, towards 

 which it expands, to termen, on which it extends from vein 4 to 

 toruus and somewhat attenuate at middle. Hind wing Avith the 

 basal half orange, with subbasal black patch from costa almost to 

 inner margin ; the terminal half black. 



Hah. Mexico, Guerrero (//. //. JSmith), 1 ^ , 3 $ , type : Guate- 

 mala {Rodriguez), 1 $ , Godman-Salvin Coll. Exj)., 6 34, $ 38 

 millim. 



515. Cisthene quadvifasciata. (Plate XXV. fig. 23.) 

 Gerba quadrifasciata, Wlk. xxxi. 270 (18(54) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 293. 



c? . Head, thorax, and abdomeu oraugo ; antennae, legs, and 

 ventral surface of abdomen blackish. Fore wing black-brown, with 

 broad orange-yellow band just before middle with slightly sinuous 

 edges ; a broad curved subterminal band from just below co.sta to 

 just below vein 2. Hind wing black-brown, with orange patch from 

 middle of costa to median nervure. 



tlab. Mexico, Oajaca {Salle), 1 S tj'pe. Exp. 30 millim. 



516. Cisthene praxis. 



Euscino praxis, Druce, A. M. N. H. (6) xiii. p. 170 (1894) ; id. Biol. Centr.- 

 Am., Het. ii. p. 397, pi. 78. f. 4. 



Palpi, frous, and antcnnte black ; vertex of head and thorax 

 orange ; legs and abdomen black. Fore wing grej'-black ; a narrow 

 orange-yellow band just before middle, slightly angled on median 

 nervure ; a narrow curved subterminal band from below costa to 

 vein 2. Hind wing with the basal half orange-yellow, with fuscous 

 patch at base of costa ; the terminal half black. 



Ilah. Mexico, Durango {Becker), 1 cJ , 1 $ type, Godman-SalviL 

 Coll. Exp. 28-34 millim. 



This may be a variety of cypris. 



